Download or read book Assessing Cyber Threats to Canadian Infrastructure written by Angela Gendron and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Cyber Threats to Canadian Infrastructure Report written by Angela Gendron and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Cyber Threats to Canadian Infrastructure written by Angela Gendron and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure written by Samuel A. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this thesis is to assess the unique technical and policy-based cybersecurity challenges facing Canada’s critical infrastructure environment and to analyze how current government and industry practices are not equipped to remediate or offset associated strategic risks to the country. Further, the thesis also provides cases and evidence demonstrating that Canada’s critical infrastructure has been specifically targeted by foreign and domestic cyber threat actors to pressure the country’s economic, safety and national security interests. Essential services that Canadians and Canadian businesses rely on daily are intricately linked to the availability and integrity of vital infrastructure sectors, such as the financial, water, healthcare, electricity, and transportation systems. These sectors continue to become increasingly connected to Information Technology (IT) assets and processes that are vulnerable to malicious computer activity. To assess these vulnerabilities, the technical components of this paper analyze the current cybersecurity challenges impacting critical infrastructure owners, operators, regulators and vendors with regard to legacy IT systems and new emerging technologies—such as cloud computing and 5G. This includes analysis on the integration of corporate Internet-linked networks with traditionally isolated Industrial Control System (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) networks. It also includes a non-industrial sector case study focusing on the financial system, which discusses the cybersecurity challenges facing the national Large-Value Transfer System (LVTS). From a national security perspective, the thesis maps Canada’s cyber threat landscape and analyzes actors such as nation-state governments, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups, terrorist organizations, malicious and negligent insiders, and hacktivists. As a recommendation, the thesis constructs a three-tiered public-private partnership that draws on a new Canadian-based cybersecurity assessment framework, the adoption of an Assumption of Compromise (AoC) security culture, and the improvement of cyber threat information-sharing programs.
Download or read book Assessing Security Threats to Canada s Energy Infrastructure written by Jennifer Anne Benoit and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safe and secure critical infrastructure is essential for the functioning of Canada's society. A robust system of infrastructure allows Canada to be a leader on the world stage but also presents potential security risks. Using open source data, this paper identifies why energy infrastructure is the ideal target for malicious attack and includes a focus on the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. Using the Harmonized Threat and Risk Assessment Methodology, to perform a risk based analysis; the likelihood of an attack on the Northern Gateway was assessed. A risk rating of low to medium was found, with a variety of vulnerabilities and possible threat actors identified.
Download or read book Too Critical to Fail written by Ben Bisset and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths of forty-seven in Quebec, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi emerged from the Alberta crisis as a folk hero. As the Lac-Mégantic train derailment and the flood in Alberta demonstrate, political, economic, legal, and cultural climates influence the way disasters are received and managed. In Too Critical to Fail, Kevin Quigley, Ben Bisset, and Bryan Mills identify the social context that shapes the Canadian government’s ability to prepare for and respond to emergencies. Using original research on natural disasters, pandemics, industrial failures, cyber-attacks, and terrorist threats, the authors evaluate the risk regulation regimes that monitor, interpret, and respond to failures in Canada’s critical infrastructure to limit their possibilities and consequences. More broadly, this book identifies key vulnerabilities and regulatory challenges for both the government and the private sector in mitigating threats to safety and security. Too Critical to Fail applies an investigative lens to the multiple and competing risks that the government balances to secure assets that enable modern civilization. Raising questions about Canadians’ ability to protect critical infrastructure and respond to threats, this book challenges the biases that determine who is held to account when the system fails.
Download or read book Assessing Cyber Threats to Canadian Infrastructure written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baseline Cyber Threat Assessment Cybercrime written by Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This assessment is intended to inform cybersecurity professionals and the general public about the threat to Canada and Canadians posed by global cybercrime. This assessment will consider cybercrime’s early history, the development of the most significant cybercrime tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), and the current (at the time of writing) nature of the global cybercrime threat and its implications for Canada. Over the next two years, we assess that cybercrime activity in Canada will very likely increase. So long as cybercriminals can extract financial profit from Canadian victims, they will almost certainly continue to mount campaigns against Canadian organizations and individuals. Moreover, cybercriminals continue to show resilience and an ability to innovate their business model to remain profitable.
Download or read book Assessing Cyber Security written by Maarten Gehem and published by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, a plethora of reports has emerged that assess the causes, dynamics, and effects of cyber threats. This proliferation of reports is an important sign of the increasing prominence of cyber attacks for organizations, both public and private, and citizens all over the world. In addition, cyber attacks are drawing more and more attention in the media. Such efforts can help to better awareness and understanding of cyber threats and pave the way to improved prevention, mitigation, and resilience. This report aims to help in this task by assessing what we know about cyber security threats based on a review of 70 studies published by public authorities, companies, and research organizations from about 15 countries over the last few years. It answers the following questions: what do we know about the number, origin, and impact of cyber attacks? What are the current and emerging cyber security trends? And how well are we prepared to face these threats?
Download or read book Technology Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cyber Infrastructure Protection written by Tarek Nazir Saadawi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increased reliance on the Internet and other networked systems raise the risks of cyber attacks that could harm our nation's cyber infrastructure. The cyber infrastructure encompasses a number of sectors including: the nation's mass transit and other transportation systems; banking and financial systems; factories; energy systems and the electric power grid; and telecommunications, which increasingly rely on a complex array of computer networks, including the public Internet. However, many of these systems and networks were not built and designed with security in mind. Therefore, our cyber infrastructure contains many holes, risks, and vulnerabilities that may enable an attacker to cause damage or disrupt cyber infrastructure operations. Threats to cyber infrastructure safety and security come from hackers, terrorists, criminal groups, and sophisticated organized crime groups; even nation-states and foreign intelligence services conduct cyber warfare. Cyber attackers can introduce new viruses, worms, and bots capable of defeating many of our efforts. Costs to the economy from these threats are huge and increasing. Government, business, and academia must therefore work together to understand the threat and develop various modes of fighting cyber attacks, and to establish and enhance a framework to assess the vulnerability of our cyber infrastructure and provide strategic policy directions for the protection of such an infrastructure. This book addresses such questions as: How serious is the cyber threat? What technical and policy-based approaches are best suited to securing telecommunications networks and information systems infrastructure security? What role will government and the private sector play in homeland defense against cyber attacks on critical civilian infrastructure, financial, and logistical systems? What legal impediments exist concerning efforts to defend the nation against cyber attacks, especially in preventive, preemptive, and retaliatory actions?
Download or read book National Cyber Security Action Plan 2019 2024 written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cyberterrorism written by Thomas M. Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to present a multidisciplinary approach to cyberterrorism. It traces the threat posed by cyberterrorism today, with chapters discussing possible technological vulnerabilities, potential motivations to engage in cyberterrorism, and the challenges of distinguishing this from other cyber threats. The book also addresses the range of potential responses to this threat by exploring policy and legislative frameworks as well as a diversity of techniques for deterring or countering terrorism in cyber environments. The case studies throughout the book are global in scope and include the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. With contributions from distinguished experts with backgrounds including international relations, law, engineering, computer science, public policy and politics, Cyberterrorism: Understanding, Assessment and Response offers a cutting edge analysis of contemporary debate on, and issues surrounding, cyberterrorism. This global scope and diversity of perspectives ensure it is of great interest to academics, students, practitioners, policymakers and other stakeholders with an interest in cyber security.
Download or read book Critical Infrastructure Risk Assessment written by Ernie Hayden, MIPM, CISSP, CEH, GICSP(Gold), PSP and published by Rothstein Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ASIS Book of The Year Winner as selected by ASIS International, the world's largest community of security practitioners Critical Infrastructure Risk Assessment wins 2021 ASIS Security Book of the Year Award - SecurityInfoWatch ... and Threat Reduction Handbook by Ernie Hayden, PSP (Rothstein Publishing) was selected as its 2021 ASIS Security Industry Book of the Year. As a manager or engineer have you ever been assigned a task to perform a risk assessment of one of your facilities or plant systems? What if you are an insurance inspector or corporate auditor? Do you know how to prepare yourself for the inspection, decided what to look for, and how to write your report? This is a handbook for junior and senior personnel alike on what constitutes critical infrastructure and risk and offers guides to the risk assessor on preparation, performance, and documentation of a risk assessment of a complex facility. This is a definite “must read” for consultants, plant managers, corporate risk managers, junior and senior engineers, and university students before they jump into their first technical assignment.
Download or read book Horizontal Evaluation of Canada s Cyber Security Strategy written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Identifying Information Useful for Cyber attacks Against Canadian Critical Infrastructure in Online Discussion Forums written by Noelle Warkentin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical infrastructures (CI) are connecting their systems to networks at an increasing rate, providing the opportunity for malicious actors to conduct cyber-attacks against these companies. In an attempt to understand the threats facing Canada's CI, information collected from online discussion forums was analyzed to discover frequently targeted CI companies and locations in Canada, the types of information shared within these forums, and who the main authors are in sharing threat-related posts. After analyzing IP addresses collected from 20 online discussion forums, the province of Quebec was identified as a hot-spot for cyber-threats, while the information and technology sector was targeted most frequently among sectors. A thematic analysis of posts containing keywords revealed that information useful for conducting cyber-attacks against CI is being shared within these forums. Lastly, findings from this study found two authors may be considered high-threat, in that the majority of their posts were threatening towards CI.
Download or read book Assessing Persistent and Emerging Cyber Threats to the U S in the Homeland written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expanding number of cyber actors, ranging from nation-states to terrorists to criminals, as well as increasing attack capability and the increasing intensity of cyber attacks around the globe, have made cyber warfare and cyber crime one of the most significant threats facing the United States. This week the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against five Chinese individuals working for the Chinese military for hacking into multiple private-sector U.S. businesses to steal their sensitive proprietary information. Additionally, the FBI and international law enforcement arrested over 100 people for using malicious software called Blackshades, which is used remotely to take over a computer, turn on the web cam, and access passwords and other information without the owner's knowledge. Over the last decade the threats facing the United States have become more diverse, as have the tools for conducting attacks and waging war. While the United States has made great strides to secure the homeland since 9/11, our enemies have evolved, and we must now consider that a foreign adversary, terrorist network, or a criminal organization will use cyberspace to penetrate America's defenses.
